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Eugene Church · 07-04-2022, 05:09 PM

MY LIFE IN 1958
EC's Hopin' Life's Great in '58

OK, all you buckaroos and little darlin's, too, it 's time to wrap up the sports year of 1958 with college football and the World Series... it was an historic time in football-crazed Bayou Land... the LSU Tigers won the national title with an unbeaten season, coached by Paul Dietzel and led by Billy Cannon and Johnny Robinson, two of the star players.

EC was never an LSU fan... when I lived in New Orleans in the early 50s, I always pulled for the hapless Tulane Green Wave or Greenies... take a gander at the attendance in '58 for the LSU-Tulane game -- 83,221 people -- also listened to the Alabama Crimson Tide every Saturday afternoon in the mid to late 1950s in Mobile with Maury Farrell and John Forney doing the play-by-play and analysis... yep, EC lived and died every Saturday... mainly died most of the time, the Tide didn't roll much in the 1950s.

Boy, I mean to tell you, the LSU Fightin' Tigers was really something that year... don't like admittin' it, but yep, the Fightin' Tigers were a heck of a team in 1958... the LSU White Team (first team), Go Team (second string offense) and Chinese Bandits (second string defense) were something to behold... the White team were the first stringers and stars... Paul Dietzel just created special names for the second and third teamers to make them think they were special, too... and it looks like it worked... the second and third stringers thought they were good, too... and yep, they were.

Saturday, October 25, 1958 was big day for Dietzel and LSU... everything came together in their favor so they could jump passed Army and Ohio State in the polls... thank goodness for tie games... otherwise LSU just might have lost the national title that year.

For the top-ranked teams, a tie was only slightly better than a loss... No. 1 Army played to a 14–14 tie against the Panthers at Pittsburgh, and No. 2 Ohio State tied with Wisconsin at home 7–7... No. 3 LSU beat Florida 10–7, and the win was enough to propel the Tigers to first place.

The Tigers went on to wrap up an unbeaten 11-0 season with a 7-0 victory over the Clemson Tigers in the Sugar Bowl.

07-04-2022, 05:09 PM	#782
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 36,206	MY LIFE IN 1958 EC's Hopin' Life's Great in '58 OK, all you buckaroos and little darlin's, too, it 's time to wrap up the sports year of 1958 with college football and the World Series... it was an historic time in football-crazed Bayou Land... the LSU Tigers won the national title with an unbeaten season, coached by Paul Dietzel and led by Billy Cannon and Johnny Robinson, two of the star players. EC was never an LSU fan... when I lived in New Orleans in the early 50s, I always pulled for the hapless Tulane Green Wave or Greenies... take a gander at the attendance in '58 for the LSU-Tulane game -- 83,221 people -- also listened to the Alabama Crimson Tide every Saturday afternoon in the mid to late 1950s in Mobile with Maury Farrell and John Forney doing the play-by-play and analysis... yep, EC lived and died every Saturday... mainly died most of the time, the Tide didn't roll much in the 1950s. Boy, I mean to tell you, the LSU Fightin' Tigers was really something that year... don't like admittin' it, but yep, the Fightin' Tigers were a heck of a team in 1958... the LSU White Team (first team), Go Team (second string offense) and Chinese Bandits (second string defense) were something to behold... the White team were the first stringers and stars... Paul Dietzel just created special names for the second and third teamers to make them think they were special, too... and it looks like it worked... the second and third stringers thought they were good, too... and yep, they were. Saturday, October 25, 1958 was big day for Dietzel and LSU... everything came together in their favor so they could jump passed Army and Ohio State in the polls... thank goodness for tie games... otherwise LSU just might have lost the national title that year. For the top-ranked teams, a tie was only slightly better than a loss... No. 1 Army played to a 14–14 tie against the Panthers at Pittsburgh, and No. 2 Ohio State tied with Wisconsin at home 7–7... No. 3 LSU beat Florida 10–7, and the win was enough to propel the Tigers to first place. The Tigers went on to wrap up an unbeaten 11-0 season with a 7-0 victory over the Clemson Tigers in the Sugar Bowl. Attached Images Last edited by Eugene Church; 07-08-2022 at 05:12 PM.